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It's like spinning Tarzan jujitsu -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 16:32
Yahoo Interchange Format. YIFs. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 16:26
I miss reality TV. whimper. -- nm - amanda May 21, 16:22 4
- Wipeout starts tomorrow. -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:28
- Real Single White Females of State College -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 21, 16:25
- life...the ultimate reality tv -- nm - budice May 21, 16:23 1
  - It's pretty effing boring - and making it interesting is dangerous. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 16:24
PS4 = Better exclusive games. For me that's the ticket. Plus Sony doesn't feel the need to make me have to pay to watch YouTube on the PS3. - Shaun May 21, 16:18 5
- This cartoon aptly reflects my opinion about Sony exclusive games. -- (link) - David May 21, 16:27 4
  - And how many of them have you played? -- nm - Shaun May 21, 16:33 3
    - God of War and whatever the stitchface thing was called. Well, I played a bit of Drake's Fortune but it wasn't for me. - David May 21, 16:37 2
      - Oh sweetie. - Shaun May 21, 16:39 1
        
        And I will! -- nm - David May 21, 16:51
Summer TV premiere dates -- (link) - Beaker May 21, 16:18 3
- I am so behind, this pains me. (not that I watch that many, but MasterChef starts this week - oy!) no top chef date yet, so there's that. -- nm - b. May 21, 16:35 2
  - TC Masters is a few weeks off. Rick Moonen is in it and here is a local story -- (link) - peglegpete May 21, 16:38 1
    - thanks! I just looked a couple of weeks ago and didn't find a date, plus none on the list; but! I just googled again and see it's July. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 16:40
Finally getting around to reading the post on state birds and what they should be, and it's pretty funny. -- (link) - mara May 21, 16:18 10
- California Quails are awesome. - Bacon May 21, 16:34
- I thought Illinois' used to be the red-winged Blackbird, but we're one of those seven. -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:31 4
  - And seeing that the Greater Prairie Chicken's range doesn't extend to Illinois that's not a good suggestion. -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:36 3
    - Holy cow, you're right. Now I've lost all respect for him. -- nm - mara May 21, 16:41 2
      - Uh-huh. -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:48 1
        
        And...I found that out from the link he supplied. -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:58
- that is amusing, thanks! oh, here's some trivia: california didn't have an official state food until last month; and now we have 4. - b. May 21, 16:29 3
  - those are turrible -- nm - charlie May 21, 16:32 2
    - why? they were all among my first thoughts + grapes for wine. good stuff, plus they're all up there for what we export. that's legal anyway. -- nm - b. May 21, 16:38 1
      - He doesn't like to eat them. He's a known avocado hater -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:38
So that happened. Twitter is arguing over how to pronounce gif. -- nm - ty97 May 21, 16:11 14
- it never occurred to me to say anything other than ... - zork May 21, 16:32 1
  - this is a valid third stance -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 16:37
- Heh, the Bugs/Daffy animation is kind of funny. -- (link) - mara May 21, 16:30
- Both are right!!! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 16:30
- Choosy moms choose GIF. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:25
- I wonder what tumblr says. - b. May 21, 16:16 2
  - Snort! -- nm - JenBro May 21, 16:46
  - People deny things even when presented with definitive proof? What is this, America? -- nm - nubby, Astro-lord, koozie aficionado May 21, 16:23
- There's no argument. There's just the right way, and the creator's way. Anyone who does it the creator's way is wrong. -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 16:15 2
  - maybe it will change over time like lots of words -- nm - zork May 21, 16:37
  - this. -- nm - loosi at home May 21, 16:36
- jif -- nm - budice May 21, 16:14
- flower. -- nm - amanda May 21, 16:12 1
  - you're southern? -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 16:13
omg, someone was making a *joke* about Alex Jones blaming the tornado on a false flag gov thing....sure enough he comes through...... -- (link) - zeitgeist May 21, 16:08 2
- we need to test it on our own people before we deploy it on our enemies. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 16:30
- Clearly the real conspiracy here is that Jones is a government plant to spew the most outrageous of conspiracy theories so that even the most - Stephen May 21, 16:20
Slate: the safest states from Mother Nature's rath...the selections are surprising -- (link) - zeitgeist May 21, 15:59 20
- Dumb. Alaska was "knocked out immediately" because of winter storms? That's just lazy. - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:16 5
  - You have a volcano blowing it's top right now. Where is that at to you? -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:19 4
    - Looks like about 600 miles away, out on the Aleutian chain. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:24 2
      - Aah no ash then. -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:28 1
        
        Not this time. Closer ones have shut down the airport before though. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 21, 16:39
    - The real volcano not Sarah Palin fyi -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:20
- Oregon -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:07 8
  - Uhm...aren't you right next a volcano in a range where the only sure nonactive volcano has given up some smoke? -- nm - nevermind May 21, 16:30 2
    - Not sure which nonactive is giving up smoke right now -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:31 1
      - Mount Margaret I think and not now, in the past. - nevermind May 21, 16:49
  - doesn't coastal Oregon have tsunami sirens? -- nm - Buzz May 21, 16:16 1
    - Yes -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:19
  - Damn right! -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 16:12
  - quakes, tsumanis, volcanos and I swear to some pagan deity that the zombie outbreak will start in portland -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 16:10 1
    - The only thing we really need to worry about here is the Cascadia Fault -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:14
- all but the intro. were written in 2005 - a lot happened since then for the states mentioned, and they don't - b. May 21, 16:04 3
  - here's something from 2011 with metro areas. Mop needs to build a compound for all of us. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 16:06 2
    - looks like utah and wyoming have had the fewest disaster area declarations in the past ~50 years. - b. May 21, 16:14
    - Dakotas have lowest quake and hurricane risk, certainly no tsunami, though yellowstone super cano is possible -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 16:11
- *wrath* too -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 15:59
Does dour rhyme with flower or sewer? - Dignan May 21, 15:17 30
- doer (like sewer) -- nm - charlie May 21, 16:08
- Closer to flower. In reality, it's hour. -- nm - David May 21, 15:47 6
  - You pronounce flower and hour differently? - TWuG May 21, 15:47 5
    - it's flower hour! -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 15:52 3
      - Their Flower Power is no match for my Glower Power! -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 15:54 2
        
        The best part about a TV series called Flower Hour is that the cooking channel could have a competing one called Flour Hour -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 15:58 1
        
        I brought you a dozen flours. -- nm - Harold Crick May 21, 16:00
    - I try to but I'm southern so... -- nm - David May 21, 15:49
- So, why are you hearing "dour" so much lately? -- nm - Spawn May 21, 15:44
- are you serious Angus? -- nm - Carla Floriani May 21, 15:39 1
  - I am, and stop calling me Angus. -- nm - Yahoo Serious si May 21, 15:41
- flower. -- nm - kelly May 21, 15:32
- BBC America strikes again -- nm - con_carne May 21, 15:29
- I'd say I've never heard the latter but come to think of it I don't think I've ever heard the word spoken. - Max May 21, 15:28
- yes -- nm - peglegpete May 21, 15:26
- dour, flower, hour, sour, cower. -- nm - ty97 May 21, 15:25
- ee-ther or eye-ther. - b. May 21, 15:24
- Flower. The sewer people are wrong. -- nm - TWuG May 21, 15:20
- penis -- nm - Spawn May 21, 15:19
- Flower. Dewer rhymes with sewer. -- nm - nubby May 21, 15:19
- flour. -- nm - loosilu May 21, 15:18 5
  - tour -- nm - mara May 21, 15:27 4
    - my wife says tour "tor" -- nm - prayformojo May 21, 15:30 3
      - two-er. - Beryllium May 21, 16:25
      - that's how you're supposed to say it. -- nm - loosi at home May 21, 16:24 1
        
        I assume he means like "tore." -- nm - mara May 21, 16:27
- sewer -- nm - mara May 21, 15:18
- The latter, if you're Scottish. -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 21, 15:18
- rhymes with sour -- nm - zork May 21, 15:18
- Flower -- nm - Stephen May 21, 15:18
Brad Pitt says he has face-blindness -- (link) - Reagen May 21, 15:17 16
- "allure" magazine had a really good piece on this recently. I think the person who wrote it had it her whole life, but wikipedia says it can come - b. May 21, 15:32 5
  - 60 Minutes did a great piece on this as well -- nm - Bacon May 21, 16:03
  - As rare as the condition is, I would bet his is more "I meet a shit-ton of people and there's no way I can recall them all so I'll "acquire" this - TWuG May 21, 15:43
  - so that's his excuse for not recognizing anybody from his highschool...or former groupies -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 15:40 2
    - if he really has it, it'd suck. - b. May 21, 15:46 1
      - I usually couldn't recognize a customer that dropped off something the day before...I suck at faces -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 16:01
- hope he doesn't depend on boobs to ID -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 15:32
- After seeing his face in the mirror every day and waking up to AJOLI's every morning... - Dr.Vermin May 21, 15:28
- All this time, he thought he was still married to Jennifer Aniston. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 15:25 7
  - Is that why he has her haircut now? So when he looks in the mirror he can see her? -- nm - Spawn May 21, 15:29
  - that would be problematic when jennifer marries jason sudeikis. -- nm - b. May 21, 15:27 5
    - The hell? -- nm - Olivia Wilde May 21, 15:49 1
      - ::diagrams joke:: still no? ok, fine. -- nm - b. May 21, 15:53
    - F*CK! -- nm - JaxSean SI May 21, 15:41
    - F*CK! -- nm - Justin Theroux May 21, 15:35 1
      - exactly! -- nm - b. May 21, 15:40
I get absurdly excited when I have to update a Wikipedia article. -- nm - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 15:15
Saying someone live in the suburbs does not mean they automatically live far from a school. Most (if not all) new subdivision builders are required to - zork May 21, 15:11 27
- I was just thinking about that earlier. Some local schools let out earlier today due to incoming storms and there were lines of cars waiting to pick - GregW May 21, 15:19
- ok, just for the distance to schools part in the U.S., this contains some data, as of 2008 nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 15:18 3
  - there it is. thanks. -- nm - loosilu May 21, 15:21
  - and more! nm but: -- (link) - b. May 21, 15:20 1
    - yes, this shows that the number living within a mile has not dropped as dramatically as the the walking rate. -- nm - zork May 21, 15:23
- Most new schools are built in the middle of nowhere as campuses in the US. - spamlet May 21, 15:12 6
  - my town does -- nm - tRuMaN May 21, 15:13
  - regardless of the school situation, if you read the article, it's about much more than school. - loosilu May 21, 15:13 4
    - I'm not sure all of the replies were prompted by the article so much as zork's comment (his title for the link). -- nm - mara May 21, 15:28 2
      - but for so many more kids to be living in newly built areas, I think the overall population would have had to rise much more than it has. - zork May 21, 15:31 1
        
        and b!'s second link seems to back that up (at least how I read it) -- nm - zork May 21, 15:33
    - this. kids are being chauffeured to stores and movie theatres and such that they don't need to be driven to -- nm - zork May 21, 15:17
- In what universe? Not in any suburb I've ever lived in has that been the case. -- nm - TWuG May 21, 15:12 14
  - I don't think it's required most places here; but there are some that are like that - for example, (and what a sucky way to learn), - b. May 21, 15:15
  - Yeah, all the ones I lived in had schools, I just didn't end up going to them. -- nm - mafic May 21, 15:15
  - in the universe that the study covers -- nm - zork May 21, 15:15 1
    - sorry, that sounds bad. Just meant that it's a canadian study. -- nm - zork May 21, 15:15
  - It depends on the municiplality here, but this is generally the case in how new suburbs are zoned - Reagen May 21, 15:14 9
    - Every experience I've had in here has been along the lines of a campus or expanding current buildings. - TWuG May 21, 15:18 8
      - And for additional savings they're cutting back on school bus service. -- nm - Meg May 21, 15:26
      - At least in Calgary, the focus is very much on "community based" planning - Reagen May 21, 15:21 6
        
        and the town figures that if the builder is going to make millions selling their homes, they can put some money into parks and schools. -- nm - zork May 21, 15:25 4
        
        yes. "municipal reserve", it's usually called, and is typically 5% of a new development. -- nm - Reagen May 21, 15:32
        
        and sewers and such. -- nm - zork May 21, 15:25 2
        
        Sewers, roads, street lights all are footed by the developer. Electrical, gas, cable are all footed by the providers. Schools are footed by property - TWuG May 21, 15:47 1
        
        developers usually build a school in their subdivisions, I recall one built a university in Malibu to get permits -- nm - zeitgeist May 21, 16:13
        
        That's the logical way to approach it. So no wonder the US doesn't work that way. -- nm - TWuG May 21, 15:23
Dear lord, make this conference call end. - Will Hunting May 21, 15:10 3
- excuse yourself for a bathroom break? -- nm - peglegpete May 21, 15:11 2
  - Fake an earthquake. -- nm - mafic May 21, 15:13 1
    - FALSE FLAG!! -- nm - Beryllium May 21, 15:16
Looks like Alec Baldwin is squishing his wife's face in this picture. -- (link) - Mop (190 lbs) May 21, 15:08 [Image] 4
- She's an ungrateful little pig! -- nm - Alex May 21, 16:10
- Star Trek: Into Darkness spoiler - Spawn May 21, 15:20
- "The resultant creature became known as The Snorglor." -- nm - Reagen May 21, 15:12
- mutual nose squish. commit to one side, people!-- nm - b. May 21, 15:10
I walked to school in kindergarten and first grade (on Long Island). After that I was in Catholic schools that weren't close enough to walk. - loosilu May 21, 15:08
Huh? For a while there it sounded like they were holding a party over the wall at the reference desk...and these are the people who used to - Meg May 21, 15:07 3
- I totally would have knocked. :) - -- nm - b. May 21, 15:11 2
  - Hee, too bad there are no rubber bands in the desk. -- nm - Meg May 21, 15:15
  - ~ ... three time on the ceiling if you want me~ -- nm - Tony Orlando May 21, 15:12
This week on General Hospital -- (link) - Todd Manning May 21, 15:07 [youtube]
keep on rolling, just a mile to go. keep on rolling my old buddy, you're moving much too slow -- nm - peglegpete May 21, 15:05

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